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. 2021 Apr;82(4):e27-e28.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.12.024. Epub 2020 Dec 28.

Emergence of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant in the UK

Julian W Tang  1 , Paul A Tambyah  2 , David Sc Hui  3
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Emergence of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant in the UK

Julian W Tang et al. J Infect. 2021 Apr.
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Fig. 1
Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of selected SARS-CoV-2 full genome sequences rooted against the original Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 reference strain (NC_045512_Wuhan_Hu_1, blue), highlighting the diversity and timeline of globally circulating strains containing the N501Y (red) and 69–70del (green) mutations that have been existing separately and independently prior to the emergence of the new B.1.1.7 (variant) (pink), after August 2020, that contains both of these characteristic mutations. All sequences were downloaded from GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org/) and were aligned using BioEdit v.7.2.5., the tree was constructed using FastTree v.2.1.11 and displayed in FigTree v.1.4.4. We gratefully acknowledge and thank the various laboratories and contributors of these GISAID for providing these SARS-CoV-2 sequences. Note that this tree is illustrative and not intended to be comprehensive.
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